The Adventures of Jimmy Newhouse

With her eyes at half-mast, her voice a sideshow modulation devised to imply otherworldly authenticity, the psychic said, "The moment your feet touch ground in Venice, you will feel as though you have finally arrived home."

Jimmy had been born with a curious heart, bursting with wanderlust, an unquenchable hunger to find his place in the world. Easy, right? Well, not when, unknowingly, your grandfather operated as a consigliere for the New Jersey Mafia and your dad allowed gangsters to use the basement of his butcher/grocery store as a secret meeting place and, when necessary, a place to "go to the mattresses" during mob wars.

Follow Jimmy's lifelong journey from child lothario to the illegitimate great-great-grandson of a Southern Italian mystic. On the run from the mob hitmen as a result of an innocent blood oath taken with his father to the cottage of a 107-year-old woman from San Martino, Italy, Isabella, whose mother called Jimmy's great-great-grandmother "her best friend."

Searching...searching...forever searching for that person who will accept him for who he is, for that place he is certain is where he belongs and he can call:

HOME.